By the Book of Judges, the biblical depiction of Esau settles on permanent antagonism, and in the main, the rabbinic and medieval traditions dig in against him. Esau and Jacob (and their ...

Commenting on Jacob’s wrestling match the night before he met his brother Esau John A. Sandford wrote in his book The Man Who Wrestled With God, “To understand Jacob’s strange experience ...

The earliest midrashic commentaries on the story of Jacob and Esau portray Esau as thoroughly ... Harry Freedman’s 2014 book The Talmud: A Biography is now available in paperback on Amazon.

determined to kill Jacob in revenge. Out of consideration for his father, Esau would wait until Isaac died. I have always been a great fan of and promoter of Esau. My book, “Esau’s Blessing ...

The story of Jacob’s surreptitious acquisition of the blessings his father intended for Esau is well known. This episode, coupled with the Torah’s declaration of Isaac’s love for Esau ...

The Book of Genesis is replete with sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau; all struggle with each other in different ways. Cain murders Abel in the first murder in ...

About 25 years ago, the award-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman wrote a children’s book ... he then learns that Esau is approaching him with 400 armed men. Jacob is terrified and distressed.